The extraordinary success that befell P. Suskind's book "The Perfumer" and the film based on it a few years ago became the reason for the publication of this book. Actually, the creepy story of the maniac inventor is quite widespread in the literature of "horror" and films of the corresponding direction, so it would be possible not to bring the philosophical basis for another best-selling thriller, but Suskind's book still contains a number of issues that require reflection. What is the reason for the phenomenal success of "Perfumer", why did millions of readers and viewers like it? What secrets of the human soul did he reflect, what aspects of public life did he touch upon? The answers to these questions can be found in the works of the philosophers M. Blanchot, W. Sombart, E. Canetti, written, oddly enough, long before the appearance of the work of P. Suskind.